The rising cost of food is hitting the poorest hard, creating shortages and kicking off a wave of protests.
Rapid price rises in the cost of tortillas provoked angry demonstrations across Mexico earlier this year. Over 75,000 trade unionists, agricultural workers and others joined the biggest demonstration through Mexico City.
Postal workers across the country showed their determination this week and last over four days of solid strikes.
It’s just before six in the morning and around 50 striking postal workers have gathered for a gate meeting outside their delivery office in Loughton – the heart of the Essex stockbroker belt of outer east London.
Managers at the Streatham delivery office in south west London are responding to the union’s "do the job properly" campaign by trying to force workers to break health and safety agreements.
There was speculation that management and the CWU union may be approaching an agreement to end the dispute as Socialist Worker went to press.
Watford Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier shouts "cobblers" at those who accuse his managers of trying to force postal workers to work beyond their hours to "get the job done".
An argument is raging about the future of the relationship between the postal workers’ CWU union and the Labour Party.
This week postal workers have dealt Royal Mail bosses a massive blow with our two 48-hour strikes. The action was extremely solid across the country and management’s prediction that this strike would be the end of the union is now looking very foolish.
Mail centres and airports: Monday 15 October from 6pm until Tuesday 16 October, 6pm. Expect continual picket lines, with more at shift changes.Delivery offices: Tuesday 16 October from 3am until Wednesday 17 October, 3am. Picketing from about 5am until 7am on Wednesday.
Why do trade union leaders echo widespread anger at the Labour government, yet also seem determined to support a Labour Party that is hell-bent on attacking working people?
John Riddell, the pre-eminent historian of the Communist Third International, continues his series by looking at the Comintern's attempt to build a worldwide party while avoiding the mistakes of the Second International
